Bottom-up tree automata with term constraints

Andreas Reuß, Helmut Seidl

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Abstract

We introduce bottom-up tree automata with equality and disequality term constraints. These constraints are more expressive than the equality and disequality constraints between brothers introduced by Bogaert and Tison in 1992. Our new class of automata is still closed under Boolean operations. Moreover, we show that for tree automata with term constraints not only membership but also emptiness is decidable. This contrasts with the undecidability of emptiness for automata with arbitrary equality constraints between subterms identified by paths as shown in 1981 by Mongy.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLogic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning - 17th International Conference, LPAR-17, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages581-593
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)364216241X, 9783642162411
DOIs
StatePublished - 2010

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume6397 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

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